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title: Why do firefighters prefer you to tell them about a pet rather than… — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do firefighters prefer you to tell them about a pet rather than go back in? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 219 «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was w
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why do firefighters prefer you to tell them about a pet rather than go back in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** firefighters · **What happens:** prefer, tell, go back · **To what, where:** you, firefighters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 219 «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t2:1
# text = Why do firefighters prefer you to tell them about a pet rather than go back in?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	prefer	prefer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	cc	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | present · do-support | firefighters | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | firefighters *not said here* |  | firefighters *= firefighter* |  |  | about a pet | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about pet=Topic |
| 3 | **go back** | infinitive | firefighters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They do not like people inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t2:o1:1
# text = They do not like people inside
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | They | people |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pets always escape by themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t2:o2:1
# text = Pets always escape by themselves
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | present | Pets |  |  |  |  | by Pets *= pet*; always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They have gear to go in, and going back in kills people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t2:o3:1
# text = They have gear to go in, and going back in kills people
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	kills	kill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | They | gear |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient |
| 2 | **go in** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | gear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | gerund | They *not said here* |  |  | kills |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Going back in is only dangerous at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t2:o4:1
# text = Going back in is only dangerous at night
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Going |  |  |  | night | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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